10-22-2010, 12:04 AM | #1 |
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November 2010 Book Club Nominations
Help us select the next book that the Mobile Read book club will read for November 2010.
The nominations will run through Oct 27 or until 10 books have made the list. Voting (new poll thread) will run for 5 days starting Oct 27. Book selection category for November per the "official" club opening thread is: November 2010 Science Fiction (rivets/science) In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a pool at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. See post #3 for an ongoing compilation of nominations. We have 10 fully nominated books! Nominations are closed. Official choices each with three nominations: 1. Old Man's War by John Scalzi - [jabberwock_11, Moe The Cat, gca3020] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
2. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - [jgaiser, kennyc, AnemicOak] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams - [obs20, lila55, ficbot, Quake1028] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
4. City At World's End by Edmond Hamilton - [crich70, twobits, ficbot] Inkmesh search ePub by mtravellerh mobi/prc by JSWolf Spoiler:
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - [seagull, ctol, brecklundin] I can only find the one large print format for this. Anyone else find something? - Inkmesh search Spoiler:
6. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge [brecklundin, kennyc, voodoo_pepperweb] Baen - Inkmesh search Spoiler:
7. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - [ficbot, Latinandgreek, voodoo_pepperweb] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
8. The Man in the High Castle by Philp K. Dick - [John F, jgaiser, kennyc] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
9. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. - [seagull, jgaiser, lila55] Inkmesh search - only large print at one site. Anyone else other links? Spoiler:
10. Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter [JSWolf, WT Sharpe, Moe The Cat] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
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No nominations yet?
I've had this book sitting on my ebook reader for a while and have been looking for a good excuse to read it. H.G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come @ Gutenberg Australia Penguin Blurb: Quote:
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10-22-2010, 01:45 AM | #3 |
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Nominations are now closed. Thank you.
OK, my eyes are crossing. Please let me know if there are any errors, or it stands as it is. Please check for an ebook's price and availability to you. I'm jumping back and forth on working on this, so give me a bit to do links and complete this. Spoilers contain links and descriptions for nominations [2] The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells -[colinsky, thinkpadx] Spoiler:
[3] Old Man's War by John Scalzi - [jabberwock_11, Moe The Cat, gca3020] Spoiler:
[1] The Time Machine by HG Wells - [GA Russell] Spoiler:
[3] City At World's End by Edmond Hamilton - [crich70, twobits, ficbot] Spoiler:
[3] The Man in the High Castle by Philp K. Dick - [John F, jgaiser, kennyc] Spoiler:
[2] The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks - [gca3020, John F] Spoiler:
[3] The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - [jgaiser, kennyc, AnemicOak] Spoiler:
[1] News from Nowhere by William Morris - [lila55] Spoiler:
[3] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams - [obs20, lila55, ficbot, Quake1028] Spoiler:
[2] To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis - [BenG, voodoo_pepperweb] Spoiler:
[3] Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - [seagull, ctol, brecklundin] Spoiler:
[3] A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. - [seagull, jgaiser, lila55] Spoiler:
[1] We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - [seagull] Spoiler:
[3] The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - [ficbot, Latinandgreek, voodoo_pepperweb] Spoiler:
[3] A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge [brecklundin, kennyc, voodoo_pepperweb] Spoiler:
[2] Spin by Robert Charles Wilson [brecklundin, Witchbaby] Spoiler:
[3] Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter [JSWolf, WT Sharpe, Moe The Cat] Spoiler:
[2] Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan [John F, Moe The Cat] Spoiler:
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10-22-2010, 02:12 AM | #4 |
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I'd like to nominate Old Man's War, by John Scalzi. I've had this book sitting in my ebook reader for a long time now and I think it's about time that I finally read it.
Here's a link to the book on Sony's site: http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/joh...00000000093647 |
10-22-2010, 02:16 AM | #5 |
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I nominate The Time Machine by HG Wells.
I believe that this was the first English language science fiction novel, and it still holds up today. It created a genre of fiction - time travelling. Written in the 1890s, it deals with issues such as class warfare that in the author's view are timeless. Yet it is an exciting adventure story more than a political tract. This is available from the free MobileRead library. |
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10-22-2010, 02:59 AM | #6 |
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I will second Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
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10-22-2010, 04:03 AM | #7 |
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I would like to nominate Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. I think it is one of his best efforts.
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10-22-2010, 04:07 AM | #9 |
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10-22-2010, 04:08 AM | #10 |
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I nominate City At World's End by Edmond Hamilton. It can be found here: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamilton...worldsend.html Apparently it fell through some sort of hole in copyright back in the day and is free to download though published in 1951.
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I'd like to nominate The Man in the High Castle by Philp K. Dick
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10-22-2010, 08:35 AM | #12 |
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Folks... when you nominate a book, can you please post a small summary of what it is about. Providing a link to the book or a better description is fine... but having something posted with the nomination makes it more likley that the book will be seconded/thirded.
Old Man's War is a great book but I've already read it. BOb |
10-22-2010, 08:46 AM | #13 |
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I'd like to nominate Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell but I'm not sure if it qualifies as science fiction. http://www.inkmesh.com/ebooks/ninete...+George+Orwell
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There's some science here and there, but unluckily, it's definitely not fiction.... |
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10-22-2010, 09:18 AM | #15 |
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Please let's not nominate a book as science fiction just because three people want it. let's nominate a book as science fiction because it is science fiction.
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